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package org.apache.openjpa.kernel;

/**
 * A manager for handling savepoints.
 *
 * @author Steve Kim
 * @since 0.3.4
 */
public interface SavepointManager {

    /**
     * Return whether the savepoints generated by this manager
     * can handle incremental flushes to the datastore.
     */
    boolean supportsIncrementalFlush();

    /**
     * Return a new savepoint for the given name, which may be null.
     */
    OpenJPASavepoint newSavepoint(String name, Broker broker);
}
